December is here, UKOUG Tech17 is over, and this means only one thing: end of year is coming. I generally like to take few minutes to look back to my year and review what I did, so I can better plan the year after. Five conferences This year, like already 2016, was...

We are at that time of the year again… Like last year, this is my contribution for the ODC Appreciation Day (#thanksODC), promoted by Tim Hall. My post starts with a little rant: OTN is gone, new name is now ODC. I’m sure there are some really smart...

I already wrote about Docker and OBIEE in Docker in relation to my OBIEE Docker image I published on GitHub. As it isn’t always obvious to get started with it, mainly if aren’t familiar with Docker, I decided to write this post which will cover from A to Z...

Not long ago I wrote a quick introduction on PGX, Parallel Graph AnalytiX, the Oracle graph solution. You can find it here: PGX – Parallel Graph AnalytiX : the Oracle graph analysis brain. To use and interact with this graph engine you will need a client or a...

Graph databases: who hasn’t heard, so far, these words? The newest pretty shiny tool for data scientist, the latest addition to the analytical toolbox after big data solutions few years ago. So far it seems to still be a niche solution, too new to be widely...

Connection pools, these little basic, but mandatory, things we all have in our RPD. For normal usage we generally do not really pay attention to it: enter a host, username and password and done, you are connected to the database and move forward to other tasks. But...

Some time ago I uploaded on GitHub the code to build Docker images for OBIEE 12c (all the current 3 releases). In the meantime, as Docker is now my main (and only with the exception of Sample Applications) way to execute OBIEE, I improved and fixed things around the...

Few days ago I wrote about Agents in OBIEE 12c and how it was possible to enable them by script, automating that part of the process which was still manual. This time I’m going to write about 2 examples of how I used my findings about Agents, providing the code...

Agents in OBIEE 12c and 11g, known as iBots back in OBIEE 10g, are a component of the BI platform providing few interesting things like pushing data to users instead of requiring users to connect and get it themselves, have alerts based on data to inform users about...

Some weeks ago I wrote about how to deploy a custom style in OBIEE 12c by using an EAR file. At that time, I said the EAR file was, for me, a better solution compared to the old classic analyticsRes shared folder as during a quick test I saw lot of 404 Not found...